Biography

Genre: World

Years Active: '80s, '90s

Kepa Junkera became a professional musician as a young man, when the band Oskorri took a liking to him and became interested in his advanced abilities on the trikitixa, the Basque style of diatonic accordion. The word can be roughly translated as "bellows from hell," which should get the point across. His exposure to music had begun as a child, with his mother appearing as a dance partner to the flamboyant Spanish dancer Txilibrin and his grandfather providing tambourine accompaniment for these performances....